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authorThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2010-11-22 13:13:04 +0100
committerThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>2010-11-22 13:13:04 +0100
commite52a09c5078364f0a645f407c797e68a2c1d5f04 (patch)
tree41ec65416103c790722d9e616cff4dbe087aaace
parent6545206187c97136d69c5a456257cafa104667bc (diff)
downloadlibnl-e52a09c5078364f0a645f407c797e68a2c1d5f04.tar.gz
nl: rename nlmsg_msg_size() to nlmsg_size(), nlmsg_len() -> nlmsg_datalen()
The old symbols are left around for compatibility.
-rw-r--r--include/netlink/msg.h16
-rw-r--r--lib/attr.c2
-rw-r--r--lib/msg.c58
-rw-r--r--lib/nl.c2
4 files changed, 54 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/include/netlink/msg.h b/include/netlink/msg.h
index e331f42..12b2061 100644
--- a/include/netlink/msg.h
+++ b/include/netlink/msg.h
@@ -44,15 +44,13 @@ struct nl_msg;
struct nl_tree;
struct ucred;
-/* size calculations */
-extern int nlmsg_msg_size(int);
-extern int nlmsg_total_size(int);
-extern int nlmsg_padlen(int);
-
-/* payload access */
-extern void * nlmsg_data(const struct nlmsghdr *);
-extern int nlmsg_len(const struct nlmsghdr *);
-extern void * nlmsg_tail(const struct nlmsghdr *);
+extern int nlmsg_size(int);
+extern int nlmsg_total_size(int);
+extern int nlmsg_padlen(int);
+
+extern void * nlmsg_data(const struct nlmsghdr *);
+extern int nlmsg_datalen(const struct nlmsghdr *);
+extern void * nlmsg_tail(const struct nlmsghdr *);
/* attribute access */
extern struct nlattr * nlmsg_attrdata(const struct nlmsghdr *, int);
diff --git a/lib/attr.c b/lib/attr.c
index 6147ff3..cccd50d 100644
--- a/lib/attr.c
+++ b/lib/attr.c
@@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ int nla_put_nested(struct nl_msg *msg, int attrtype, struct nl_msg *nested)
NL_DBG(2, "msg %p: attr <> %d: adding msg %p as nested attribute\n",
msg, attrtype, nested);
- return nla_put(msg, attrtype, nlmsg_len(nested->nm_nlh),
+ return nla_put(msg, attrtype, nlmsg_datalen(nested->nm_nlh),
nlmsg_data(nested->nm_nlh));
}
diff --git a/lib/msg.c b/lib/msg.c
index f6d1ee4..95ad188 100644
--- a/lib/msg.c
+++ b/lib/msg.c
@@ -178,17 +178,32 @@ static void __init init_msg_size(void)
*/
/**
- * length of netlink message not including padding
- * @arg payload length of message payload
+ * Calculates size of netlink message based on payload length.
+ * @arg payload Length of payload
+ *
+ * See \ref core_msg_fmt_align for more information on alignment.
+ *
+ * @return size of netlink message without padding.
*/
-int nlmsg_msg_size(int payload)
+int nlmsg_size(int payload)
{
return NLMSG_HDRLEN + payload;
}
+int nlmsg_msg_size(int payload)
+{
+ return nlmsg_size(payload);
+}
+
/**
- * length of netlink message including padding
- * @arg payload length of message payload
+ * Calculates size of netlink message including padding based on payload length
+ * @arg payload Length of payload
+ *
+ * This function is idential to nlmsg_size() + nlmsg_padlen().
+ *
+ * See \ref core_msg_fmt_align for more information on alignment.
+ *
+ * @return Size of netlink message including padding.
*/
int nlmsg_total_size(int payload)
{
@@ -196,8 +211,16 @@ int nlmsg_total_size(int payload)
}
/**
- * length of padding at the message's tail
- * @arg payload length of message payload
+ * Size of padding that needs to be added at end of message
+ * @arg payload Length of payload
+ *
+ * Calculates the number of bytes of padding which is required to be added to
+ * the end of the message to ensure that the next netlink message header begins
+ * properly aligned to NLMSG_ALIGNTO.
+ *
+ * See \ref core_msg_fmt_align for more information on alignment.
+ *
+ * @return Number of bytes of padding needed.
*/
int nlmsg_padlen(int payload)
{
@@ -207,13 +230,15 @@ int nlmsg_padlen(int payload)
/** @} */
/**
- * @name Payload Access
+ * @name Access to Message Payload
* @{
*/
/**
- * head of message payload
- * @arg nlh netlink messsage header
+ * Return pointer to message payload
+ * @arg nlh Netlink message header
+ *
+ * @return Pointer to start of message payload.
*/
void *nlmsg_data(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
{
@@ -226,14 +251,21 @@ void *nlmsg_tail(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
}
/**
- * length of message payload
- * @arg nlh netlink message header
+ * Return length of message payload
+ * @arg nlh Netlink message header
+ *
+ * @return Length of message payload in bytes.
*/
-int nlmsg_len(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
+int nlmsg_datalen(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
{
return nlh->nlmsg_len - NLMSG_HDRLEN;
}
+int nlmsg_len(const struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
+{
+ return nlmsg_datalen(nlh);
+}
+
/** @} */
/**
diff --git a/lib/nl.c b/lib/nl.c
index 4e09b9e..97a5df0 100644
--- a/lib/nl.c
+++ b/lib/nl.c
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ continue_reading:
else if (hdr->nlmsg_type == NLMSG_ERROR) {
struct nlmsgerr *e = nlmsg_data(hdr);
- if (hdr->nlmsg_len < nlmsg_msg_size(sizeof(*e))) {
+ if (hdr->nlmsg_len < nlmsg_size(sizeof(*e))) {
/* Truncated error message, the default action
* is to stop parsing. The user may overrule
* this action by returning NL_SKIP or